A81 crash in East Dunbartonshire on 13 April 2002 at 15:59 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo, a car and a Rover 600 Series were involved in a crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire at 15:59 on Saturday 13 April 2002. An 84-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Apr 2002
- Saturday, 15:59
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Polo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.93756, longitude -4.31159, in the G62 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, G62 6QR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Dunbartonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200297CD70204
- Council area
- East Dunbartonshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 81
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 807
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 November 2006.
Slight
Scania crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 4 November 2006
At the same spotRef 200697CD00811
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the A81 in East Dunbartonshire, 20 January 1999
At the same spotRef 199997CD02401
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A807 in East Dunbartonshire, 20 April 2004
At the same spotRef 200497CD03704
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A807 in East Dunbartonshire, 6 October 2022
3 m awayRef 2022991227192
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A807 in East Dunbartonshire, 14 June 2014
5 m awayRef 201497BF01206
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A807 in East Dunbartonshire, 20 January 2020
16 m awayRef 2020990921288
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 3: Rover 600 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,850 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 84, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 200297CD70204 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Dunbartonshire road accident statistics for 2002.